Vanderbilt can't hide holes at linebacker

2:41 AM,
Oct. 7, 2013

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Nick Cole
| The Tennessean

After giving up 51 points to Missouri on Saturday night, James Franklin's two missions for Vanderbilt's bye week are clear: re-assess defensive personnel and recruit like crazy.

It is the first of two bye weeks for Vanderbilt (3-3, 0-3 SEC) this season, and it comes on the heels of arguably the worst defensive performance of the Franklin era.

"It comes at a very good time," Franklin said of the bye. "We have a lot of guys that aren't on the field right now that we need to get on the field. We need to take some time to look at some things and where we have people and who we are playing, and we need to be ...